Schools can enhance the quality of life by teaching the constructive use of leisure, active citizenship, and internationalism. These programs can be added to schools' curricula with the help of volunteers, thereby improving children's education and the volunteers' quality of life. (Author/SJL)

In this 10-year study of older male workers in nonmetropolitan areas, employment status, income, health, life outlook, and social ties were investigated. In most cases, adverse conditions were related to occupational class rather than age or other factors. (SK)

Previous research suggests that while the urban elderly have demonstrable advantages in terms of many "objective" indicators of quality of life, they appear to have no corresponding advantage in terms of subjective or emotional well being. New substantive and new methodological techniques can both help to explain this paradox. (Author/GC)

The ideas of voluntary simplicity and a "small is beautiful" lifestyle are applied to schools in an attempt to make connections between an ecological world view and schools. (JMF)

Difficulties faced by older adults are exacerbated by social attitudes that render them unproductive and unneeded citizens. Health education can provide aging education that will make the aged stage of life a positive, useful, healthy, and socially acceptable time for continued personal growth. (JD)

Describes the development of a multidimensional attitude instrument, the aging opinion survey. Attitudes toward the aging of peers or known persons, toward personal aspects of aging, and toward the eldelry as general-other groups are factorially separable, and should be distinguished in attitude surveys. (Author)

Little attention has been given to the severely handicapped older person. A group of disabled elderly men participating as unpaid volunteers in a bi-weekly sheltered workshop indicated that being able to help others, getting out of the house, and sociability were important reasons for their interest and participation. (Author)

Married couples rated their marital satisfaction and played interpersonal competitive games which revealed the success with which they interacted. Younger husbands who scored more maturely on the Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity belonged to more successful marriages, as did college-educated wives who showed less immaturity and more phallic…

Efforts to qualitatively measure the effectiveness of military recreational programs have met only negligible success. This is due in part to a lack of definitive data and a lack of scientific assessment tools for adequately measuring performance objectives. (JN)

Discusses the theoretical proposition that adolescent-young adults and the retired-aging bear a symmetrical relationship in terms of psycho-social propensities and "social location." Respondents from two age groups reflected personal views of goals, values, and satisfaction and stresses of life as they experienced it. (Author)

Consequences of singlehood are analyzed for never-married persons. Highly-educated older women are most likely to remain single. Family background is not a predictor. Although the never-married find life more exciting than other marital statuses among younger respondents, this reverses in later life. Never-marrieds are also less happy than the…

Explores the nature and uses of human understanding by focusing on three points of emphasis: characterizing the meaning of human understanding as a function of being human, reviewing the consequences of inhumanity, and proposing a process for human understanding through multicultural consciousness. (CM)

Investigating rural residents' satisfaction with their residential environment, this study's general objective is the formulation and empirical testing of a conceptual framework of community satisfaction that examines the contention that objective measures of environmental attributes are inadequate in themselves as life-quality measures.…

Examines elements in developing a positive self-image: recognizing personal assets; developing positive beliefs about life; and caring for others. It is not the job that brings satisfaction, but the person you are that you bring to your vocation. You can improve that person and, while doing so, enjoy the experience. (Author)

Critiques Marxian "cures" for alienation as discussed in Karl Marx's "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts." Also traces the activity of a former student who joined the revolution in Cuba. Journal available from 7 Harwood Drive, Amherst, New York, 14226. (KC)